Earlier this month (January 2009) I made the prediction that Silverlight penetration would approach Flash penetration (80%+) . It's a bold prediction, especially since it is widely held that as of this month, penetration is in the 25% range. There was a string of very large scale successes just this...

I know that posts from PDC 2008 are getting a bit long in the tooth, but I was looking over my session notes and couldn't not share it. It's a session where one of the senior MS team members that delivered the NBC Sliverlight portal for the Olympics talked about the project from beginning to...

Predictions are a risky business, but they're fun to read and fun to make nonetheless. I generally find I'm less wrong when I make fewer predictions, so here are my best 4 for 2009. Fellow RD Barry Gervin makes some great 2009 predictions himself (couldn't agree more with the prediction about...

I was surprised when I heard the announcement that Sun was getting into the Rich Internet Application (RIA) Platform business. But they are, with an offering called JavaFX. I've dropped a couple of posts comparing Silverlight with Flash, but clearly I need to go to work and start looking at JavaFX...

A lot has happened over the past couple of weeks in the ongoing fight between Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe's Flash . We're seeing uptake in interest in the Toronto and Canadian markets for Silverlight-based solutions (including Silverlight with Sharepoint and Silverlight for Mobile)...

As many of you probably already know, Silverlight 2 was released in the wee hours of the morning (3AM EST or 12AM Microsoft-time). We've noticed some inconsistencies with the upgrade process from Silverlight 2 Beta 2 to the Silverlight Release, so I figured I would share our findings with you here...

The recent article in Macworld ( Analysis: For Microsoft shops, Silverlight 2.0 trumps Flash ) has generated quite a bit of interest over the past week in the Microsoft community. If the comments at macworld.com are any indication, the article was not well-received by the Apple community. The salient...

I love top 10 lists... Seamless download and install The widget shows non-private information Option to load on startup Configurable with your preferences Uses a small amount of resources (<5MB of memory) Has "Blink value" - value you can get in <1s. You can look at desktop widgets that...

Earlier this year I headed up a development team to build 2 Silverlight applications for The Weather Network. The first application to be released a few weeks ago is “ WeatherEye Golf ” ( press release ) which provides weather information for over 17,000 golf courses in Canada and the U.S...

In Silverlight 2 Beta 1, storing user settings in IsolatedStorage was almost as much of a pain as storing user settings in Vista Gadgets (Except you can write .NET code to stream the data to file instead of using JavaScript). With the recent release of Silverlight 2 Beta 2, storing data in IsolatedStorage...